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Rosemary Batt

Alice Cook Professor of Women and Work
Chairperson of the Department of Human Resource Studies

Human Resource Studies

Overview

Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is a Professor in Human Resource Studies and International and Comparative Labor. She received her BA from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on comparative international studies of management and employment relations, with particular attention to the impact of financialization on management and employment and the globalization and restructuring of service industries and its impact on low wage workers. She previously coordinated the Global Call Center Project/. She has written extensively on human resource practices and their effect on firm performance, the quality of jobs, and wage and employment outcomes.

Her work has appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Personnel Psychology. She is co-author of Private Equity at Work (2014) with Eileen Appelbaum; co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Work and Organization and co-author of The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States, Cornell University Press.

Rosemary Batt, Malllika Banerjee. 2012. The Scope and Trajectory of Strategic HR Research: Evidence from American and British Journals , International Journal of Human Resources Management
. 23(9-10):1739-62.

Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt. 1993. "Policy Levers for High Performance Production Systems", In International Contributions to Labour Studies, annual labor issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics
.

Rosemary Batt, Owen Darbishire. 2001. "Deregulation and Restructuring in Telecommunications Services in the United States and Germany". in Labor, Business, Banks, and Change in Germany and the United States. Kalamazoo, MI, United States: W.E. UpJohn Press, 2001. Kristen Wever.

Conference Proceedings

Danielle van Jaarsveld, Rosemary Batt. 2002. "Changes in Employment and Working Conditions Among Technical & Professional Workers". in Preceedings of the 54th Annual Meetings of the IRRA. Madison, WI, United States: IRRA Series, 2002.

Rosemary Batt. 1999. "Changing Internal Labor Markets in Service and Sales Occupations. in Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meetings of the IRRA. Madison, WI, United States: IRRA Series, 1999.

Invited Keynote Address. “Financial Innovation and Inequality: Challenges for Labor Research and Practice.” , International Conference of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), HEC Montreal. 2015